Enlightenment Geography [electronic resource] : The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850 / by R. Mayhew.
Enlightenment Geography
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230595491 978-0-230-59549-1
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/5182
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2000.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VIII, 324 p. online resource.
Dizi
Studies in Modern History, 2946-2061
Özet, vb.
Enlightenment Geography is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850. The definition and role of geography in a humanist structure of knowledge are examined and shown to tie it to political discourse. Geographical works are shown to have developed Whig and Tory defences of the English church and state, consonant with the conservatism of the English Enlightenment. These politicizations were questioned by those indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment. Enlightenment Geography questions broad assumptions about British intellectual history through a revisionist history of geography.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Geography.
Intellectual life __ History.
Europe __ History __ 1492-.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Geography.
Intellectual History.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Modern History.
Geography.
Intellectual life __ History.
Europe __ History __ 1492-.
History, Modern.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Geography.
Intellectual History.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Modern History.